http://www.runningmyassoff.com Making Progress Every Day Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:06:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After the marathon, I had an hour car ride back to Lincoln.  I drank two bottles of water and a Gatorade on the way home.  I also located the second half of the Snickers bar matted inside my shirt pocket.  Yuck.  Jeremy was VERY excited for me to do the ice ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/post-marathon.html Okay, so now I was CONVINVED I had completely screwed myself with the NikePlus method of training.  I had probably never run even 14 miles, maybe 12 tops.  As I kept running, I kept getting more and more discouraged that there was no way I was going to finish this ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/part-ii-marathon-of-pain.html Marathon day started at 4:30 am. I woke up early and got going. I had everything laid out and ready. I kissed Jeremy good bye and headed to Omaha by 5:15. The hour drive was peaceful. I arrived in Omaha ready to run. Amazingly, I found decent parking and walked ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/part-i-262-miles-completed-i-finished.html I am getting ready to run the big one in the morning.  I have been running around like crazy since the day after the marathon, ShoeMoney and I leave for vacation.  I am getting packed, got my nails done, went to Omaha to pick up my race-day packet with my ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/holly-crapole-the-marathon-is-tomorrow.html The next 20 days, I am tapering.  That means I run less miles overall, shorter distances with the longest run being 9 miles.  That is cake to me.  I can run 9 miles barefoot if needed. I feel a little hyped up-full of energy and raring to go-which is the whole ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/tapering.html I am doing my long run a bit early this week since I am on call over the weekend.  I can't run that long or that far away from home in case I am needed at the hospital.  I got started about 6:30 which meant it was getting pretty dark for ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/bliss-run-9-miles.html So I started out with high hopes for this run.  I had conquered last weeks 18 miler and lived to tell the tale.  I decided I was not going to do 18, I was going to do a full 20!  A nice, round number, at my pace of 12 minute ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/last-long-run-18-miles-i-need-a-ride-home.html After last weeks long-run disaster, I was determined to make this one, my first 18 miler, a success.  I laid everything out the night before with a plan on getting up about 6 am and hitting it by 7am.  I declared my bedtime at 7:30 and went to bed-that was ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/18-miles-longest-yet.html Last week, ShoeMoney and I were in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.  My weekly long run was a 16 miler and I hammered it without any problem.  We were there for a wedding.  Since the Nike Plus is so handy for charting miles, I brought that along to track my progress.  Unfortunately, I ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/worst-run-ever.html I spent the past weekend in Billings, MT with my dear friends Julie and Corey and their lovely little Carolyn (4 months).  My program called for a 16 miler.  Since Corey and Julie were the ones who turned me onto running a marathon, they got excited about helping me.  Corey ... http://www.runningmyassoff.com/16-miles-in-billings-mt.html